The Museum has one of the world’s largest and most important natural history collections, with over 80 million specimens from around the world, spanning 4.6 billion years of history.

We are proposing to build a flagship collections, digitisation and research centre in Shinfield to house 28 million of these specimens: mammals, non-insect invertebrates (such as corals, crustaceans, molluscs and worms), fossils and molecular collections. 

For more information and full download of plans, visit their website